Year: 2006

In the coming weeks, more than 3,500 Harvard employees – including most of the Universitys Central Administration – will change their e-mail and calendaring services to Microsoft Outlook. Because e-mail is such a vital aspect of University records, the planned rollover to Microsoft Outlook is an important reason to think about managing e-mail and reducing…

Despite all the destruction of forests, pollution, overpopulation, and overfishing, Edward O. Wilson is optimistic about the future of life on Earth. Science, prudent actions, and moral courage are showing some signs of making a difference, says one of the worlds most influential naturalists, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and Pellegrino University Professor Emeritus at…

June 1913 – Having proved itself during a five-year experimental period, the Business School emerges from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to become an independent graduate school. June 16,…

News and information about Harvard will be delivered digitally to the community beginning in July, including two summer issues of the Harvard Gazette (http://www.news-harvard.go-vip.net/gazette/gazette). Paper publication of the Gazette will…

As public health authorities monitor the global spread of avian influenza, or bird flu, Harvard officials continue to plan how the University would respond to the various needs of students, faculty, staff, and their families in the event of a human pandemic.

Harvard University today (June 13) released the inaugural report of its newly created Office for Faculty Development and Diversity, along with the announcement of $7.5 million in enhancements to its work-life programs. These enhancements are designed to better support faculty, doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff as they balance the demands of work and family.

These days, every year seems packed more full of incident than the last. Around the world and here at Harvard, the academic year of 2005-06 was no exception. Now, as we celebrate the culmination of the academic calendar, it’s an ideal time to pause a moment to take a look at some of the high…

If the purpose of art is to challenge and disturb, to push viewers beyond the borders of their comfort zone, then Jane Van Cleef is certainly an artist. The odd thing is that she manages to be unsettling using the most domesticated of materials – fabric and thread.

Only a handful of architects get to be celebrities. Danny Forster has gone them one better. Hes a celebrity architecture student.

In her junior year at Brown University, Julie Herlihy volunteered to teach children in a remote part of Africa. But when she got to Zimbabwe, no one wanted her. Following an orientation session, the person who was to take her to her assigned village never showed up.

Melissa Goldman is passionate about set design. Its a subject to which she brings such infectious enthusiasm and obvious energy that even on a gray day, she can light up a black box – the empty hall of the Loeb Experimental Theater, venue for her latest production, Alice in Wonderland.

At first glance, Peter Brooks story sounds stereotypical: Like his two older brothers, he attended Philips Exeter Academy, then continued on to Harvard, following in the footsteps not only of his brothers, but also his father, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, and five uncles. Just a normal white preppy from Massachusetts, he says.

Harvard senior Prashant Sharma thought he wanted to study molecular and cellular biology when he arrived at Harvard four years ago, but the mysteries of evolutionary biology drew him away.

With evolution under attack, policymakers blind to scientific consensus on global warming, and faith-based terrorists roiling international peace, Harvards graduating seniors must make their voices heard as people of reason, Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers said Tuesday (June 6).

Who would have thought the purchase of six Chinese silk handkerchiefs would change Harvard’s athletic history? Benjamin W. Crowninshield, Class of 1858, kept a journal through his junior and senior years at Harvard and it demonstrates two diverse truths about life – that “the more things change, the more they stay the same” and “you…

Continuing its long tradition of promoting and funding student research in Europe, the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES) has announced that 40 undergraduates will pursue thesis research and internships on the continent this summer, while more than two dozen graduate students have been awarded support for their dissertations over the coming year.

The Universitys plans for a 21st century extension of its campus in Allston took more definite shape this year with the selection of a site and architect for a half-million-square-foot science complex, as well as the announcement of plans for new arts and culture facilities.

With their Commencement, students will go forth to press on to higher and better things – at all events, to other things, as Nathaniel Hawthorne once put it. But students arent the only ones planning new projects or looking forward to relaxing in a shady hammock – or both, simultaneously. Professors, too, are embarking on…

An ethicist whose work has had a major impact on medical policy, an astronomer who uncovers secrets of distant galaxies, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who has proposed challenging theories of economic growth, and a writer whose many books have established him as the foremost historian of California received the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences…

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Harvard one of 50 universities nationwide to receive grants ranging from $1.5 million to $2.2 million for bold and innovative undergraduate science education programs.

June 19, 1858 – At the Boston City Regatta, crimson finds its first use as a Harvard color when members of a Harvard boat club seek to distinguish themselves among…

Lawrence H. Summers announced on Feb. 21, 2006, that he will conclude his tenure as president of Harvard at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year. After a period of sabbatical and reflection, he will return to teaching and research as a University Professor.

Lawrence H. Summers announced on Feb. 21, 2006, that he will conclude his tenure as president of Harvard at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year. After a period of sabbatical and reflection, he will return to teaching and research as a University Professor.

Lawrence H. Summers announced on Feb. 21, 2006, that he will conclude his tenure as president of Harvard at the end of the 2005-2006 academic year. After a period of sabbatical and reflection, he will return to teaching and research as a University Professor.

Today the University awarded a total of 6,706 degrees and 248 certificates. A breakdown of the degrees by schools and programs follows. Harvard College granted a total of 1,641 degrees.

This year the Harvard Extension School will have three Commencement ceremonies: one for undergraduate degrees, one for graduate degrees, and one for graduate certificates. The Undergraduate Commencement Speaker Award goes to Siza Mtimbiri, A.L.B., who will speak on the topic A Walk to Remember. The Graduate Commencement Speaker Award goes to Daniel E. Levenson, A.L.M.,…

Drew Gilpin Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Lincoln Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has announced the names of 37 women and 13 men selected to be 2006 – 07 Radcliffe Fellows. At the institute, the fellows – among them 16 humanists, 14 scientists, 10 creative…

Sacasha Brown was living in New York City when terrorists crashed two passenger jets into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.